Carney, Liberals Say They’re Waiting on Committee Report to Decide on MAID Extension

Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his way to question period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 5, 2026. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won’t take a position yet on whether people with only a mental illness should be able to access assisted dying.

A parliamentary committee of senators and MPs is studying whether the country is ready to expand medical assistance in dying, or MAID, to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.